Monday, March 19, 2018

Hostility and prejudice towards Jewish people is
obviously nothing new in our country or the world.

It is actually quite
interesting to note that there are neo-Nazis and Black radical extremists, who
while simultaneously hating one another, share common ground with both groups
having a fanatical distaste for Jewish people.

With this in mind, this
form of bigotry has been the impetus for some political rumblings in the media
as of late.

The Daily Caller has revealed the number of politicians with
direct connections to Minister Louis Farrakhan, the 84-year-old leader of the
Nation of Islam, who has been known for his hostile remarks toward the Jewish
people in the past.

Some have gone on to denounce Farrakhan and/or his
statements recently. However, there are still those who have maintained a
relationship with him in spite of the vile remarks that he has made about this
particular people group.

Farrakhan’s history of anti-Semitism

In 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) detailed Farrakhan’s
anti-semitism and what they call his “anti-white theology.”

The SPLC may
not always be correct in their assessments of other well-known individuals or
organizations, especially those with a conservative viewpoint, but they seem to
hit the nail on the head when analyzing Farrakhan and his own controversial
statements from the past.

The page about Farrakhan on their site gives
his “extremist info,” his background, and quotes from him going back to 1990.

With a video he made and
a certainly debatable remark from 1990 — “The Jews, a small handful,
control the movement of this great nation, like a radar controls the movement
of a great ship in the waters … the Jews got a stranglehold on the Congress.” —
one may ask the question: did he ever list out the evidence that he has against
Jewish people?

Inconsistencies on the left regarding
Farrakhan

Even with there being a history of disputable assertions
by Farrakhan, politicians, like Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters, have
not condemned him.

Also, as pointed out by The Daily Caller,
Minnesota Representative and Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison
continued to meet with
Farrakhan, even after having condemned him earlier in 2006.

CNN’s Jake Tapper made a
good point about condemning Farrakhan’s bigotry through a recent social media
post.

James Hasson, a Contributor for The Federalist,
actually pointed back to previous social media posts by
Farrakhan to reveal the “bile” that he is known for uttering.

If Trump was seen taking pictures and shaking hands with
White supremacists, like David Duke and Richard Spencer, then the Left would be
having a field day about his apparent racism and ties to racists.

Therefore,
for them to keep some supposed air of moral superiority over Republicans or
conservatives, they must remain consistent and denounce the anti-semitism of
Minister Farrakhan.

How can Rep. Maxine Walters blast Trump over the white
supremacy displayed in Charlottesville and
allow bigotry in another name slide? Rep. Ellison once said about
Trump:

I have to come to a conclusion, based on all
of the behavior I’ve seen out of Donald Trump, that the reason he is reluctant
to denounce white supremacy and neo-Nazis and Klan members is because he has
some level of sympathy for them.

So, if we use Ellison’s logic against itself in this
situation, then can we ascertain from his reluctance to completely denounce
Farrakhan’s prejudice (and avoid meeting with him until there is change or an
expression of regret from Farrakhan) that he sympathizes with this form of
prejudice?

Any rational individual who is against any form of
bigotry is against all forms of bigotry.

President Trump called Andrew McCabe a 'choirboy' as he
lauded the former acting FBI Director's firing, suggesting multiple
federal reports show “corruption at the highest level.”

“Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working
men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey
was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies
and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!” Trump tweeted hours
after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the dismissal.

McCabe was fired just days before he would have been
eligible for a lifetime pension after it was determined that he lied to
investigators reviewing the bureau’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

"Pursuant to Department Order 1202, and based on the
report of the Inspector General, the findings of the FBI Office of Professional
Responsibility, and the recommendation of the Department’s senior career
official, I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective
immediately," Sessions said in a statement.

He went to say that after reviewing the reports, it was
“McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor
− including under oath − on multiple occasions.”

"The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the
highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability. As the OPR
proposal stated, 'all FBI employees know that lacking candor under oath results
in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand,'" Sessions said.

Soon after his firing, McCabe hit back in a fiery
response of his own.

"This attack on my credibility is one part of a
larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law
enforcement, and intelligence professionals more generally," McCabe said.
"It is part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the
efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day. Their
persistence in this campaign only highlights the importance of the Special
Counsel’s work.”

McCabe said he and his family have been the targets of
unrelenting attacks on their reputation and his service to the U.S.

"Articles too numerous to count have leveled every
sort of false, defamatory and degrading allegation against us,” he said. “The
President’s tweets have amplified and exacerbated it all. He called for my
firing. He called for me to be stripped of my pension after more than 20 years
of service. And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from
the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about us. No
more."

McCabe's firing marked a stunning fall for a man who was
No. 2 at the bureau for a time under former FBI Director James Comey, ran it
and even was reportedly on Trump’s short list for the directorship.

But McCabe has also been mired in controversy in recent
years.

Sessions’ decision to fire McCabe came as Justice
Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded a bureau oversight
investigation, with a report expected to be critical of McCabe’s handling of
the Clinton email probe, his handling of the bureau during the early months of
the Russia investigation, and his ties to the Democratic Party.

Horowitz determined that McCabe hadn't been forthcoming
in regard to the handling of the FBI’s probe into Clinton’s use of a private
email server while she was secretary of state in the Obama administration.

Horowitz’s investigation, which landed McCabe in hot
water, faults the former deputy director for the way he answered questions
about his approval for interactions between an FBI official and a reporter
about the bureau’s investigation into the nonprofit Clinton Foundation.

McCabe was “removed” from his post as deputy to FBI
Director Christopher Wray in January, setting in motion a plan to leave the
bureau after months of conflict-of-interest complaints from Republicans —
including President Trump.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday
that the decision was entirely up to Sessions, but that McCabe was a "bad
actor."

"That's a determination we [left] up to Attorney
General Sessions, but we do think that it is well documented that he has had
some very troubling behavior and has been a bad actor," Sanders said.

“FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to
retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!!” Trump tweeted in December, before
McCabe’s removal.

McCabe became acting director of the FBI after Trump
fired Comey on May 9, 2017. McCabe led the bureau, independently, until Aug. 2,
2017 — during the early months of the investigation into Russian meddling in
the 2016 presidential election and potential collusion with Trump campaign
associates.

Republicans have also long criticized McCabe for his ties
to the Democratic Party — his wife received donations during a failed 2015
Virginia Senate run from a group tied to a Clinton ally, former Virginia Gov.
Terry McAuliffe — all while the Clinton email probe was underway.

“How can FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the man in
charge, along with leakin’ James Comey, of the Phony Hillary Clinton
investigation (including her 33,000 illegally deleted emails) be given $700,000
for wife’s campaign by Clinton Puppets during investigation?” the president
tweeted in December.

The president was “not a part of the decision making
process,” when McCabe was removed from the bureau in January, press secretary
Sanders said.

McCabe returned to the white-hot spotlight when
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released its memo on Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses in connection with the Russia
probe, saying that McCabe signed a FISA warrant targeting former Trump campaign
volunteer adviser Carter Page.

“McCabe testified before the committee in December 2017
that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the [FISA court]
without the Steele dossier information,” the memo read. The Steele dossier was
unverified, and financed as opposition research by the Democratic National Committee
and the Clinton campaign.

And recently uncovered text messages between FBI
officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page revealed a new timeline in the Clinton
email probe, apparently showing McCabe’s knowledge of the investigation.

The text messages suggest that as of Sept. 28, 2016,
Strzok, Page and McCabe were aware of new Clinton emails found on the laptop of
disgraced former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, spouse of Hillary Clinton aide Huma
Abedin.

“Got called up to Andy’s earlier … hundreds of thousands
of emails turned over by Weiner’s atty to sdny, includes a ton of material from
spouse. Sending team up tomorrow to review…this will never end …” Strzok wrote
in a text message to Page.

But it wasn’t until Oct. 27, 2016 that Comey was briefed
on the newly discovered emails — meaning McCabe kept the director in the dark
for a month.

Horowitz is specifically investigating McCabe and whether
he wanted to avoid taking action on the laptop findings until after the
presidential election, in which Clinton lost to Trump.

According to testimony obtained by Fox News from an
Office of Special Counsel interview with former Comey Chief of Staff James
Rybicki, McCabe’s office did not notify him until the night of Oct. 26, 2016.

The OSC also interviewed FBI Deputy General Counsel
Trisha Anderson, who testified that Comey was first briefed on the material
found on Weiner’s laptop on Oct. 27, 2016.

Anderson noted that the director’s office decided to
“urgently” address the situation.

“Given the significance of the matter, um, uh, that we
had to proceed quickly,” Anderson told investigators. “It was just too, too
explosive for us to sit on.”

So it wasn’t until Oct. 28, 2016, that Comey sent a
letter to Congress announcing the “recent developments” of the discovery of the
Clinton and Abedin communications found on the laptop —which he had just been
briefed on a day before. That letter reopened the Clinton email probe just a
week before the election. The inspector general is investigating McCabe’s
involvement in this timeline.

Several Republicans also have pointed with alarm to the
Strzok-Page texts and their references to McCabe in relation to an “insurance
policy” to prevent Trump from being elected president, and a “secret society”
within the bureau.

Brooke
Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @brookefoxnews.

Friday, March 16, 2018

They arrived dirt poor and
uneducated in the 1840s. After decades of struggle, they achieved prosperity.

Every year in the runup to St.
Patrick’s Day, the Census Bureau releases a demographic profile of
Irish-Americans.

For anyone familiar with the arduous history of the Irish in
this country, the progress report is an annual reminder of America’s ability to
assimilate newcomers in search of a better life.

It was the potato famine that began
driving large numbers of Irish to leave home in the late 1840s. This migration,
along with mass starvation and disease, would eventually cost Ireland around a
third of its population. Some went to Great Britain, but the overwhelming
majority came to America.

Today the number of Americans of Irish descent
(32.3 million) is nearly seven times as large as the population of Ireland (4.7
million).

The peasants fleeing Ireland had a
shorter life expectancy than slaves in the U.S., many of whom enjoyed healthier
diets and better living quarters. Most slaves slept on mattresses, while most
poor Irish peasants slept on piles of straw.

The black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois
wrote that freed slaves were poor by American standards, “but not as poor as
the Irish peasants.”

The Irish who left for America were
packed into the unused cargo space of wind-driven ships returning to the U.S.,
and the voyage could take up to three months, depending on weather. These cargo
holds weren’t intended to carry passengers, and the lack of proper ventilation
and sanitation meant that outbreaks of typhus, cholera and other fatal diseases
were common.

Emigrants slept on 3-by-6-foot shelves, which one observer
described as “still reeking from the ineradicable stench left by the emigrants
of the last voyage.”

In 1847, 19% of the Irish emigrants
died on their way to the U.S. or shortly after arriving. By comparison, the
average mortality rate on British slave ships of the period was 9%.
Slave-owners had an economic incentive to keep slaves alive. No one had such an
interest in the Irish.

The 19th-century immigrants from
Europe usually started at the bottom, both socially and economically, and the
Irish epitomized this trend. Irish men worked as manual laborers, while Irish
women were domestic servants.

But not all ethnic groups rose to prosperity at
the same rate, and the rise of the Irish was especially slow. They had arrived
from a country that was mostly rural, yet they settled in cities like Boston
and New York, working “wherever brawn and not skill was the chief requirement,”
as one historian put it. In the antebellum South, the Irish took jobs—mining
coal, building canals and railroads—considered too hazardous even for
slaves.

In the 1840s, New York City’s
population grew 65%. By midcentury, more than half of the city’s residents were
immigrants, and more than a quarter of those newcomers had come from Ireland.
At the time, half of New York’s Irish workforce and nearly two-thirds of
Boston’s were either unskilled laborers or domestic servants. “No other contemporary
immigrant group was so concentrated at the bottom of the economic ladder,”
writes Thomas Sowell in his classic work, “Ethnic America.”

It wasn’t just a lack of education
and urban job skills that slowed the progress of the Irish in America. So did social
pathology and discrimination. The Irish were known for drinking and brawling.
Irish gangs were common.

When an Irish family moved into a neighborhood,
property values fell and other residents fled. Political cartoonists gave
Irishmen dark skin and simian features. Anti-Catholic employers requested
“Protestant” applicants. Want ads read: “Any color or country except Irish.”

Yet none of these obstacles proved
insurmountable. Charitable organizations, such as the Irish Emigrant Society,
emerged. Temperance societies formed to address alcoholism.

The Catholic Church
took a leading role in tackling poverty, illiteracy and other social problems
through the creation of orphanages and hospitals and schools. For millions of
Irish immigrants, the church was not simply a place of worship. It was the
focal point of the community.

According to the Census Bureau,
today’s Irish-Americans boast poverty rates far below the national average and
median incomes far exceeding it. The rates at which they graduate from high school,
complete college, work in skilled professions, and own homes are also better
than average.

What’s so remarkable about this social and economic trajectory
among the Irish is how many times it has been replicated among other immigrant
groups.

Whether this kind of upward mobility
is still possible today given the changes to our economy and culture is an open
question. My guess is that it’s still possible but more difficult—not because
of our modern economy, but because of our modern attitudes toward assimilation.

The type of Americanization of newcomers that once was encouraged is now
rejected by activists who push for bilingual education, Spanish-language
ballots and the like. The multiculturalists have turned assimilation into a
dirty word. Perhaps they’re the ones we should be deporting.

Trump Dossier: With each new revelation, a picture of the Russian scandal
emerges: Not only were Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National
Committee up to their necks in collusion with Russians to undermine
then-candidate Donald Trump, but President Obama was in on the action, too.
Is this where collusion becomes conspiracy?

See if this sounds familiar: Democratic presidential campaign pays
international law firm Perkins Coie, which then turns around and pays left-wing
opposition research firm Fusion GPS to dig up dirt on the campaign's political
opponent.

In fact, Hillary was a
Janey-come-lately to that ploy. Obama did it first in 2012. Using his Obama
for America campaign front, Obama paid Perkins Coie close to a
million dollars, which was reportedly used to pay — who
else — Fusion GPS to find salacious stuff about Obama's foe in the 2012
election, the ultra-square Mitt Romney.

That enemies list was placed on the
Obama campaign's Orwellian "Truth Team" web site. The site called them a "group of wealthy individuals
with less-than-reputable records. Quite a few have been on the wrong side of
the law, others have made profits at the expense of so many Americans..."

That kind of vilification of decent,
law-abiding, successful Americans is bad enough. But to drive home the
intimidation, each of the names on the list was subsequently tweeted out from
the @TruthTeam2012 twitter feed, along with their supposed misdeeds, most of
which really amounted merely to tough or unpopular business decisions they had
to make.

Obama "relied on a vast
grassroots network to coerce, bully, boycott and vilify individuals lawfully
taking part in the political process, just as his own donors and supporter are
freely allowed to engage," wrote the Daily Signal back
in 2012.

Imagine for a moment the chilling
effect that would have on a political foe's campaign — calling those who
fund another campaign's candidate "enemies," with all that entails. The
IRS, the SEC, the FBI, the Justice Department, all with active prosecution
arms, all headed by Obama loyalists. To say it's an act of political and
personal intimidation is an understatement.

Obama's fingerprints go beyond that,
however.

The Isikoff-Corn book suggests that the infamous relationship between former
British spy Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS and the FBI was
forged by Obama officials at the State Department — in particular former
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland,
who gave permission to the FBI to talk to Steele in London, and former U.S.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jonathan Winer, who "worked as
a middleman to bring Mr. Steele together with Sidney Blumenthal, a fierce
Hillary Clinton defender. Mr. Winer spoke with Ms. Nuland, who gave a heads up
to Secretary of State John Kerry."

How much do you want to bet that
Kerry, a cabinet member, reported all this to former President Obama?

By the way, both Nuland and Winer
worked for Clinton at the State Department, and both have since left.

And the
notorious Trump dossier that resulted from putting Steele together with the
FBI, Fusion and the Clinton campaign led to a wiretap of the Trump campaign and
also now serves as the centerpiece of a year-and-a-half long
Mueller investigation into Trump — one that has now spilled over its
boundaries, looking into things that have nothing to do with Russian meddling
in the 2016 election.

The genius of it all is that, at the
same time they were using spurious Russian contacts to smear Trump's name,
they were also launching the FBI investigation into phony allegations of
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians in 2016.

But what we now see clearly is this
entire scheme wasn't just cooked up by a Nixonian Hillary Clinton, trying her
best to destroy her political foe.

No, it was part of a pattern set by
President Obama and copied by his able student, Hillary.

The Obama-adoring
media knew what Obama had done in 2012, but barely bothered to report at the
time.

This goes beyond mere creepy
political collusion, or dirty campaign capers. It suggests a broader
Democratic scheme to use government resources to hamstring opposition political
campaigns and, now, to destroy a presidency.

And this conspiracy spans two
presidential campaign cycles and two separate opposition presidential
candidates, using remarkably similar tactics and even the same law firm and
research operation. With a number of government officials knowingly involved,
this, in short, reeks of conspiracy to subvert the election process.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Meghan McCain called the Clintons a “virus” on “The View”
Tuesday in response to remarks Hillary Clinton made in India Monday calling
Trump voters racist and sexist.

McCain also said Clinton’s messaging is maybe
not the best for the Democratic party coming into the midterm elections.

"His whole campaign: 'Make America Great Again' was
looking backwards,” Hillary told a
crowd in Mumbai of Trump. “You know, you didn't like black people getting
rights, you don't like women, you know, getting jobs, you don't want to you
know see that Indian American succeeding more than you are, whatever your
problem is, I'm going to solve it.' So it was a symptom."

“She ran one of the worst campaigns ever,” McCain said in
response to Clinton’s remarks, “she didn’t do the kind of ground game in
Wisconsin and North Carolina that she should have. I think at this point if you
can’t stop making this about virtue-signaling and race, a lot of it was about
poverty, a lot of it was about the economy, a lot of it was this anti-Washington
sentiment, anti-establishment sentiment that we should’ve seen growing within
the Tea Party.”

“Honestly, I have to tell you,” she added. “It’s one
thing to lose to President Obama. It’s an entirely other thing to pull off
losing to President Trump. And you gotta come up with a better excuse than
this.”

McCain warned that Hillary’s messaging could backfire in
the upcoming midterm elections.

“If your messaging is that you want to go back in
time, that women can’t think for themselves, that our husbands, and our bosses,
and our sons tell us what to do, that’s quite the message going forward into
midterms and [the] general election,” she said.

“The Clintons are a virus in the Democratic Party. You
have to move on,” she said.

"View" host Joy Behar partially agreed with
McCain.

“Well I thought that it was time for them to back off
right now,” Behar agreed, “I don’t think that they’re helping the party right
now.”

About This Blog & the National Black Republican Association

Lieutenant Colonel Frances Rice, United States Army, Retired is a native of Atlanta, Georgia and retired from the Army in 1984 after 20 years of active service. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Drury College in 1973, a Masters of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in 1976, and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1977.
In 2005, she became a co-founder and Chairman of the National Black Republican Association, an organization that is committed to returning African Americans to their Republican Party roots.
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